So, I ran into this issue today. I'm sorry if it's been brought up, but I spent 10 minutes trying to find where to place this and where it might be located. I found other threads about "party kick abuse," but this one is different.

I was in a Titan EX Duty Finder. A certain Individual claimed he knew the fight, and he won it on his alt. Throughout the whole fight, he was performing horribly and hurting the group. We all talk to him about it, and then he says, "Kick me, I have to go. Time to do Ifrit EX." Well, this guy has made a fool out of himself, and at this point we don't want to kick him. We advise him to take the 30 minute penalty.

This Individual then goes to to pull Titan and wipe the whole group over and over until we would kick him. Here's where the problem is: People who don't want to take a 30 minute penalty, but they want to leave the group, can openly grief people until the party gets so upset they kick them. Thus they don't receive a penalty.

This isn't fair. I reported him to a GM, and we also eventually kicked him after he MPK'd us about 3-4 times. But, this is a clear abuse of the system. Is there not some way to combat this? How should I go about handling this situation next time?

For the record, he did seem to be a child, cussing and talking like he had no idea what he was talking about.